The validity of students' estimates of their interests

Abstract

College students' estimates of their scientific, computational, manual, artistic, literary, social service, and persuasive interests were compared with their measured interests in these fields as given by Kuder's Preference Record. The average coefficient of correlation between estimated and measured interests was .54. In general, those students making high scores on the American Council Scholastic Aptitude test were better able to judge their interests than those making low scores. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)